The use of cowbuilder-dist instead of pbuilder-dist
Stefano Rivera
stefanor at ubuntu.com
Wed Oct 24 17:56:01 UTC 2012
Hi Oussama (2012.10.24_19:46:31_+0200)
> I think everyone using pbuilder-dist now should switch to
> cowbuilder-dist (unless you don't have enough free space on your disk)
> please tell me what you think.
Or just use sbuild, which can also use copy-on-write filesystems.
sbuild + overlayfs/aufs is very similar to cowbuilder.
sbuild is what the buildds use. It's less customisable than pbuilder (if
you have lots of fancy hooks, that you like) but has a significantly
better out-of-the-box configuration. And gives way nicer error messages,
if you are missing build-dependencies.
mk-sbuild in ubuntu-dev-tools knows how to set it up.
SR
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